Sentencing Act 2020

Powers of court in England or Wales where offender required to appear under paragraph 17

20 (1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) the relevant court in England and Wales is exercising a power to amend a youth rehabilitation order by virtue of paragraph 19(3), and

(b) the offender resides in Northern Ireland.

(2) The court may not amend the youth rehabilitation order unless, in relation to any requirement that it proposes to impose, it appears to the court that suitable arrangements for the offender’s supervision can be made by—

(a) the Probation Board for Northern Ireland, or

(b) any other designated body.

(3) The court may not impose either of the following requirements—

(a) a local authority residence requirement;

(b) a fostering requirement.

(4) The court may not amend the youth rehabilitation order to impose a locally based requirement unless it appears to the court that—

(a) arrangements exist for persons to comply with such a requirement in Northern Ireland, and

(b) provision can be made for the offender to comply with the requirement under those arrangements.

For the purposes of this paragraph, “locally based requirement” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of paragraph 5.

(5) The court may not—

(a) impose a requirement, or

(b) amend a requirement imposed by the youth rehabilitation order,

so that it is imposed in respect of more hours, days or months than the maximum number of hours, days or months in respect of which a court in Northern Ireland could impose a similar requirement in a corresponding order.

(6) The following apply in relation to the amendment of the youth rehabilitation order by virtue of paragraph 19(3) as they apply in relation to the amendment of an order in accordance with Part 1 of this Schedule—

(a) paragraph 7,

(b) paragraphs 8 to 17.